Friendly reminder to test your water for yourself a couple times a year. Do not take anyone else’s word for it. You can get decent tests online for $20-30 that will catch the most important types of contamination.
There are people posting liberal or conservative political rants. People posting absurdities about how high lead levels have no effect on a human in any case. All category of senselessness is represented in posts higher than this one at this point.
And a comment with actionable information that can help people mitigate problems with the very issue being discussed is relegated to the bottom of the stack? I don't normally complain about HN, but it really is getting worse and worse lately.
Aren't you being insufficiently paranoid? No one should trust their municipal water authority but they can totally trust the makers of water testing kits? Obviously, everyone should reinvent all of the relevant chemistry and biology and manufacture their own water treatment infrastructure. [This is sarcasm. Your municipal water authority is probably fine. Everything involves tradeoffs.]
